Postmodernism in Music/Music Videos



Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place



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Jackson Pollock No. 5


Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As your bad mood disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back in focus again

The walls abandon shape
They got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had

What's the point of instruments
Words are a sawed off shotgun

Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

Jigsaw falling into place
There is nothing to explain
Regard each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You've got a light you can feel it on your back
You've got a light you can feel it on your back
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COLDPLAY - The Scientist



Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I've set you apart

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles
Comin up tails
Heads on the science apart

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing
The numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart

Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh, when I rush to the start

Running in circles
Chasing our tails
Comin' back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

I’m going back to the start...

Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh


Postmodernism in Movies


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Amores Perros



Kanye West's Graduation CD Cover

By: Takashi Murakami

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Postmodern Art of the World


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Aboriginee art piece from Australia which defies traditional art in which a definite, concrete drawing of some thing, person, or place. This drawing can be whatever the viewer sees in it.































by Andy Warhol
by Andy Warhol

Warhol displays for his observers how human life is reconstructed through the power of culture (Morris, 1998).




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Mother Teresa's face made by millions of Dandelions (by Phil Hansen)


Jackson Pollock No. 5

Jackson Pollock No. 5






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Phil Hansen makes Bruce Lee portrait with only karate chops (video of how he did it shown on the right)
This portrait of Bruce Lee is postmodern in that the artist uses reflexivity. He emulates Bruce Lee's martial art style as a way of producing the painting (i.e. painting the portrait using only karate chops).

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Expelled From The Garden, They Turn To Greed. The New Religion.
By: Mike Morrow

Art by Stella Im Hultberg

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Stella



Art by Vicky Brago-Mitchell

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Green Flowers


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Luminous


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Golden Dragon




Postmodern Architecture

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Dancing House in Prague (left) Side View (right)


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The Lovie House at 7 Tennant Place, Jerrabomberra, was designed and built by Geoff Lovie in 1998.

Examples of Critical Postmodern Art
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Philip Johnson's At&T Headquarters
Philip Johnson's At&T Headquarters

Philip Johnson's At&T Headquarters
Photo by Dan McKay, Flickr Creative Commons Philip Johnson's At&T Headquarters (now the SONY Building) is often cited as an example of postmodernism.Postmodern architecture evolved from the modernist movement, yet contradicts many of the modernist ideas. Combining new ideas with traditional forms, postmodernist buildings may startle, surprise, and even amuse. Familiar shapes and details are used in unexpected ways. Buildings may incorporate symbols to make a statement or simply to delight the viewer.
Philip Johnson's At&T Headquarters is often cited as an example of postmodernism. Like many buildings in the International Style, the skyscraper has a sleek, classical facade. At the top, however, is an oversized "Chippendale" pediment.
The key ideas of Postmodernism are set forth in two important books by Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas.

Postmodern Architects:

Further Reading:

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
In this groundbreaking book, published in 1966, Robert Venturi challenged modernism and celebrated the mix of historic styles in great cities such as Rome. (Compare Prices)
Learning from Las Vegas
Subtitled "The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form," this postmodernist classic called the "vulgar billboards" of the Vegas Strip emblems for a new architecture. Published in 1972, the book was written by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, and Denise Scott Brown. (Compare Prices)

Aboriginee Didgeridoo



Postmodernism in Literature

http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/post-mod-attrib.html


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Postmodern Theater


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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind





References:
Morris, D. (1998). Illness and culture in the postmodern age. Berkley: University of California Press.